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What is Coding?
What is Coding?
Coding, or computer programming, is giving a computer step-by-step commands to tell it what to do.
Why teach coding?
Students who have mastered coding can construct, hypothesise, explore, experiment, evaluate, and draw conclusions.
Coding is an important and necessary future-focused literacy. It is included as part of the school curricula in many countries who recognise this.
Five reasons to teach coding:
Coding is a tool to improve educational equity
Coding offers inclusion
Coding can improve neuroplasticity
Coding improves Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) proficiencies
Coding is an important and necessary future-focused literacy.
Scratch
Scratch
Scratch Instructional Start Up For Teachers
Scratch Instructional Start Up For Teachers
Lesson Ideas
Lesson Ideas
For more Scratch Challenges check these out - Scratch Challenges
Makecode Arcade
Makecode Arcade
Microsoft MakeCode is a free online learn-to-code platform where anyone can build games, and code devices. It is a great tool to teach kids to learn how to code and the principles of computer programming.
Click above to try Makecode Arcade.
Makecode Arcade is essentially a free online code editor that anyone can use to create retro arcade games for the browser or/and handheld consoles. There are lots of tutorials for your learners to learn the basics of programming.
Create a game where the goal is to eat as much pizza as you can!
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Let's create a game where your player speeds through the cones to get to the hoop.
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Make an action game where the player has to react quickly to avoid fast moving barrels.
Make an action game where the player has to react quickly to avoid fast moving barrels.
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micro:bits
micro:bits
The BBC micro:bit is a pocket-sized computer for introducing young people to software, hardware, and how they work together, using lights, buttons, sensors, and programmable features that make projects interactive and fun!
Use Microsoft Makecode to start coding with micro:bit. Using the tutorials on the micro:bit site is a great way to learn the basic.
Lesson Ideas
Lesson Ideas
For more lessons check out these micro:bit projects and the make it code it resources
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